“Book Descriptions: Short story by Annie Proulx published in The New Yorker June 22, 1998.
The Mud Below is the tale of Diamond Felts - a small-time rodeo rider with a painful family past behind him. His mother was adamant against him going into the rodeo, but he did it anyway. And now he travels around to little dusty towns, and takes his chances on massive heaving bulls.
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this breathtaking tale of loneliness, quick violence, and desperation, set in a landscape both stark and magnificent -- by an author writing at the peak of her craft” DRIVE
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